ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES#AaronSwartz killed himself because he scraped research data and they aggressively prosecuted him.
Now #AI companies say they should scrape our data for free.
Vint Prox@benroyce You mean not-so-public Internet, of course? Because that's where money lies.
they took something open and decentralized and walled it off to not so much sell to us, but to sell us
it's like building a cool bar next to the free fountain and piping the water into the bar, and saying "why use the free fountain when the bar is 'free' too, but access means we get all of the intimate details of your life in exchange for a drink"